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Police Put Numbers on Oktoberfest Fun

Thursday, 04 October 2012 19:09 | | |

The opening week-end of Oktoberfest isn't just a little busier than normal
for La Crosse police. It goes well beyond that. Numbers released by
police today show a wide gulf between arrests, tickets and calls in general on a
typical week-end and the opening fest week-end. The week-end before fest
had police making 25 arrests. Fest week-end: fifty arrests, which is
actually down considerably from last year. Citations for things like
underage drinking on the week-end prior: 55. Compare that to over four
hundred for fest week-end. And calls for police service in general keep
cops hopping. Nearly 11 hundred calls last week-end.
More than double the week-end before. Police also a little more bruised
than a normal week-end. Three officers suffered injuries during the
first Oktoberfest week-end while making arrests.